The solidliquid interface free-energy of Pb: Comparison of theory and experiments

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 23, Issue 43, 2011, Pages

  Angioletti Uberti, S ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY; ITS EVALUATION; KEY PARAMETERS; MANY-BODY POTENTIALS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUCLEATION RATE; SOLID-LIQUID INTERFACES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

CONTACT ANGLE; FREE ENERGY; LEAD; NUCLEATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80054107321     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/43/435008     Document Type: Article

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